The next volume in the acclaimed Black Fire This Time series is set to debut next month. Volume 2 contains the work of over 75 award-winning poets and writers on the ongoing theme of “Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home.” The volume includes the work of living legends Judy Juanita, pioneer of Black Studies across the country and the seminal play by Jimmy Garrett, And We Own the Night. A national tour kicks off on April 26 at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD).

The book is available for preorder thru April 30. After that date, it will be distributed by University Press of Mississippi.

“Nobody could adequately review Black Fire—This Time Volume 1. It would be like trying to describe all the people of our planet to an alien. The tapestry is just too much. Black Fire—This Time is like a live event in the sense it must be experienced, more than talked about. . .  This is a historical artifact – an essential artistic document, encapsulating the spirit of something impossible to encapsulate; the voices of black writers from mid-20th century, to current day. . .”

–Candice Louisa Daquin, CounterPunch